Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 18
So far as the children of Europe have their fairy stories in common, these--and they form more than a third of the whole--are derived from India.
Who acts: children · What happens: have, form, derive · To what, where: fairy stories, more, India
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 have | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Europe | case |
| 7 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 children | nmod |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stories | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stories | compound |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 common | case |
| 13 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 have | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 these | punct |
| 15 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 common | nsubj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 form | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 form | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 form | nsubj |
| 19 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | parataxis |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 form | obj |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 third | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 third | det |
| 23 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 more | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 whole | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 whole | det |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 third | nmod |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 derived | punct |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 derived | aux:pass |
| 29 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 form | conj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 India | case |
| 31 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 derived | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the children of Europe | children's fairy stories | far property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | |||
| 2 | form | present | children = child | more | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme | ||||
| 3 | derive | present · passive | children = child not said here | India | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from india=Material |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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